Norristown Title Co. v. Hancock Ins.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 179 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 12 March Term 1889,' C. P. Ou December 8, 1889, the Norristown Title, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, guardian of William Legg, a minor, brought assumpsit against the Jolm Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance issued by the defendant upon the life of Annie Cruikshank. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit.
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. 179 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 12 March Term 1889,' C. P. Ou December 8, 1889, the Norristown Title, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, guardian of William Legg, a minor, brought assumpsit against the Jolm Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance issued by the defendant upon the life of Annie Cruikshank. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit. At the trial on October 15, 1889, it was made to appear tbat on April 21, 1886, the defendant company issued to Annie Cruikshank a policy…
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Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson :
This was an action brought in the court below on an insurance policy issued by the appellant company upon the life of Annie Cruikshank. The beneficiary appears to have been one William Legg, a minor child, although he was not named as such in the policy. It was proved, however, that he was designated in the application as the beneficiary. It was not disputed that Annie Cruikshank was dead; that the policy was in force at the time of her death; nor that the proper proofs of her death had been made to the company. The case below turned upon a mere technicality;…
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